Add the salt, cumin seeds to dosa batter and give a nice mix. Heat the tava/griddle and pour the batter into small and thick in size. Sprinkle the onion green chilies, coriander leaves. Cook it from the both side with generous amount of oil.

Monday, January 17, 2011

Happy Makar Sankranti to all my blogger friends and readers. This is a sweet dish made from wheat flour and consists no oil, no ghee. Its healthy and filling. It's very old and authentic dish from Karnataka & Maharashtra.

Ingredients for dough:

1 cup Wheat flour (chapati hittu/atta)

1/2 cup Besan

2 tsp Rice flour

Little salt

Other ingredients:

Jaggery as per taste

Cardamom seed powder

2-3 tsp Daliya/ Putane (dry roasted)

2-3 tsp Dry coconut (dry roasted)

1-2 tsp Sounf / Aniseed (dry roasted)

Dry fruits -Cashewnuts, Raisins.(optional)

Method:

Mix the wheat flour, besan, rice flour, salt and knead the dough.(not too soft dough). Immediately start rolling like chapati but no folds,just a big circle and little thicker then normal chapti. Dry roast on tava both the side. Let them sit for a while.

Make small pieces chapti and put into mixer and make coarse powder. In a bowl add above made coarse wheat flour, add jaggery, cardamom powder, daliya/putane, sounf / aniseed and dry fruits. Give an nice mix to it.

Serve with ghee or with warm milk.

Notes:

This can stay for 4-5 days.

As per original recipe, Use whole wheat grains, split bengal gram and raw rice which is floured in the flour miller then its used. Or you can you the flours as I have used.

Monday, January 10, 2011

Cook the noodles as per the instruction and keep it a side. Heat the
shallow pan with oil, add ginger garlic paste, onion and fry till they
tun light brwon. Add all veggies and cook till they are tender. Add cooked noodles, salt and pepper and cook for a
while.

In a cotton towel or cheese cloth put the yogurt , squeeze water and
hang the bundle of yogurt for 12 hrs. In a blow add this strained yogurt
which thick and soft yogurt. In a small bowl add milk and saffron and
let dissolve for 10 minutes. Add sugar, cardamon powder, dry fruits to strained yogurt and mix it well.

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Kitchen is my Kingdom. I Enjoy making and eating with my Family and my Friends. My "Husband" is a biggest Inspiration to me. In my blog I am posting my mom’s recipes and also some new recipes from world.

In this blog you can also see Karnataka (south and north) and Maharastra recipes.